Last Chance: $35 to See Kathy Griffin at The Riverside Theater on Friday, September 13 at 7 p.m. (Up to $64.61 Value)

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Emmy-winning actress and nationally known comedian dishes on celebrity encounters in scandalously hilarious standup show

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Expires Sep 13th, 2013.
Limit 8 per person. Redeem on 9/13 for a ticket at venue will call. Must show valid ID matching name on Groupon at The Riverside Theater. Refundable only on day of purchase. Must redeem/purchase together to sit together. Discount reflects The Riverside Theater's current ticket prices-price may differ on day of the event. Doors open 1 hour before showtime. For ADA seating, call box office promptly upon receipt of voucher - availability is limited.
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Kathy Griffin

The resumé of actress and comedian Kathy Griffin sparkles with awards and honors. Across a decades-long career, she has garnered two Emmys for her Bravo show My Life on the D-List, four Grammy nominations for her comedy albums, countless standup specials, and performances on television shows such as Suddenly Susan. A longtime Los Angeles resident and alumna of famed improv group The Groundlings, Griffin perches on the edge of the Hollywood in-crowd, allowing her to skewer stars’ foibles and excesses using firsthand observations and a scandalously wicked sense of humor.

She’s as hardworking as she is gleefully loudmouthed, working as fast as the cable-news cycle spins to generate new material—last year alone, she created four standup specials for Bravo and debuted a new talk show, Kathy. Live onstage, she told Creative Loafing Atlanta, “I can give the behind-the-scenes stuff from the Kathy show, the stuff Bravo won’t let me talk about . . . My show is highly improvisational and I basically do standup until I get arrested.”<p>

The Riverside Theater

As vaudeville heaved its last breaths in the late 1920s, RKO’s Riverside Theater opened in 1928 and served as a performance hall for just a few years before Warner Brothers took it over to screen their films. Decades of neglect followed, reaching a nadir in 1966 when a carelessly tossed cigarette butt incinerated the proscenium’s lavish drapery, prompting the cash-conscious owners to replace the opulent teal velour with workmanlike duvetyn. A slated demolition in 1982 nearly replaced the theater with a shopping mall before a coalition of citizens convinced philanthropist Joseph Zilber to save the space. In the subsequent renovations, craftsmen installed plush red drapery, overhauled the obsolete lighting, and repainted the faded French Baroque gilding of the auditorium, restoring the elegant space to its former glory and inspiring it to get back out on the theater dating scene.<p>

Pabst Theater

Captain Frederick Pabst contributed to Milwaukee’s status as a cultural landmark of the upper Midwest by building Pabst Theater, formally known as Das Neue Deutsche Stadt-Theater, in 1895. According to legend, when he was informed that his theater had burned to the ground, the brewing magnate interrupted his European vacation to wire home the order to “Rebuild at once!”—and 11 months later, the stage was completed anew. Where the old theater honored German artists by having their names inscribed along the cornice of the auditorium, the new building featured an international consortium of cultural notables. The theater’s globe-spanning influences were made even more apparent with the installation of an Austrian crystal chandelier and an Italian marble staircase.